TY  - GEN
AU  - Altshuler,Daniel
TI  - Events, States and Times. An essay on narrative discourse in English
SN  - 9783110485912
PY  - 2016///
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - narrative progression
KW  - abduction
KW  - discourse coherence
KW  - rhetorical relations
KW  - states
KW  - attitude reports
KW  - indexicality
KW  - indirect speech
KW  - times
KW  - anaphora
KW  - Events
KW  - aspect
KW  - sequence of tense
KW  - tense
KW  - adverbs
KW  - deixis
N1  - Open Access
N2  - This monograph investigates the temporal interpretation of narrative discourse in two parts. The theme of the first part is narrative progression. It begins with a case study of the adverb ‘now’ and its interaction with the meaning of tense. The case study motivates an ontological distinction between events, states and times and proposes that ‘now’ seeks a prominent state that holds throughout the time described by the tense. Building on prior research, prominence is shown to be influenced by principles of discourse coherence and two coherence principles, NARRATION and RESULT, are given a formally explicit characterization. The key innovation is a new method for testing the definitional adequacy of NARRATION and RESULT, namely by an abductive argument. This contribution opens a new way of thinking about how eventive and stative descriptions contribute to the perceived narrative progression in a discourse
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110485912
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/47117
ER  -